February, 7, 2005 archives
left hand, meet the right hand
james gosling, who inflicted java on the world, had some interesting things to say about open-source companies:
Open source vendors also came under fire, with Gosling sideswiping MySQL, JBoss, and Red Hat: “They say that they are running their businesses based on services.
“These businesses are more hype than reality. If they don’t have a [longer term] economic model…they are going to have a really hard time.”
apparently he didn’t get the memo.
but i guess if anyone would be an expert on companies that lack financial viability, it would be an executive at sun.
i also love the other juxtaposition in the article: mysql isn’t open source because “no one is allowed to do check-ins,” but java is open-source, because the source has always been available.